HEighty million francs: these are the cumulative losses of the five university hospitals in 2020 and 2021. And this, despite cantonal aid for an amount of 547 million. Insufficient, however, to compensate for an operating loss of 626 million francs.
“The total cessation of elective operations during the first wave of Covid and their sharp decrease therefollowing had a big impact on our finances”, explained Bertrand Levrat, director of the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), during a press conference yesterday in Bern, alongside officials from the four other establishments…
